GBH said:
I Agree I strongly recommend if you have no time issues , book an appointment with local immigration office, I went for landing at coutts and I was asked by the officer why I didnt do landing procedure at local office, they were not at all happy with me showing up at border for flag polling. And for those who said that this was just one officer having bad day, I was asked the same question by two officers.
I finally went to the border as an appointment will take about month to happen ( I was waiting one and half yrs now and fed-up with waiting, I needed to finish this once and for all). So today I went to the North Portal in SK.
Drew in to the USA side, an officer checked my passport and said He cannot recognize me
, then he smiled and told I look younger in my passport photo. he gave me a laminated paper with driving instructions. Parked there and went to the office to get the administrative refusal, drew back to the Canadian side and officer asked me to come and see inside.
They were extremely helpful and one lady officer literally filled out the COPR form for the guy next to me. They took my study and work permits and told me I dont need these anymore... yay !!
So as you can see my experience was extremely positive and now I dont have to think about this PR thing anymore ! Thank you guys and please AMA.